7,000 Lashes For Being Gay

Saudi prison authorities began administering 7,000 lashes each to two men for being gay.

Beginning this week, they have been dragged out into the town square and whipped in public. It has happened every day this week and will contiue daily until all 7,000 lashes have been administered to each man.

Well I'm sure the sadomasicistic few of us must be very happy as well as the ones who are also exhibitionists. You'vew been a very very bad boy NOw look at the camera while I whip you muahahahaha! AI PAPI! lol

No they don't have homosexuals in Iraq just plenty of men who were supposed to be women because they have sexual feelings for men lol. So a few hundred thousand men get there dicks cut off tthanks to government funding by IRan WEEEEEEEE! Ouch!

McGay: WOW....thanks for sharing! The pathology of Ignorance - Religious ideologies must be the foundational bases for this TORTURE - My heart goes out to the 2 HUMAN BEINGS...their families and friends too!

I suggest everyone on this site send an email to the United Nations. There are over 80,000 guys on here, that's 80,000 emails, and if you get your friends and family to mail..........I think they will get the message.

Actually, the 7000 lashes is widely regarded in much of the Arab world as a merciful and compassionate sentence.

Gay men have been publicly executed in Saudi Arabia, where beheading is the primary method (much more merciful and compassionate than stoning which is today considered cruel and unusual punishment).

Critics have noted that, in several Arab countries where it is punishable by death to be homosexual, men are accused of homosexuality for political reasons.

Homosexuality is considered a grave sin. In Hadith, Muhammad clarifies the gravity of this by saying: "Allah curses the one who does the actions (homosexual practices) of the people of Lut," repeating it three times; saying in another Hadith: "If a man comes upon a man then they are both adulterers." Here, he considered homosexuality tantamount to adultery in relation to the Shari’ah punishments because it is an abomination on the one hand, and the definition of adultery applies to it on the other hand.....As for lesbians, Muhammad said about them: "If a woman comes upon a woman, they are both adulteresses." The homosexual receives the same punishment as an adulterer. This means, that if the homosexual is married, he/she is stoned to death, while if single, he/she is whipped 100 times.

Both men receiving the 7000 lashes were married (both might also be political rivals - activists), and so deserving - under Shri'ah - of death.

Had they been single, they might have appealed for a lesser sentance of only 100 lash's; something that is done quite frequently.

ITJock: A "merciful" and "compassionate" sentence? It is manifestly not. It is a disproportionate response to an act that ought not even be a crime.

The state of Saudi Arabia has a record for human rights abuses that rivals the excesses of the Roman Empire. And yet we still buy oil from them. And yet we still prop up their little tyranny. What hypocrites we are.

I have already composed a letter to my MP in england and our Senator in Cleveland. Small words against a barbaric act.